Let There Be Cake by Jae P

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Stepped outside the comfort zone and did another cake collaboration!!!

This one is the best, based off the poem Dante's Inferno! I chose to make my piece after the canon on lust.

I modeled a lust demon/person consumed with lust out of modeling chocolate, dressed her in fondant. I'm impressed how I did. Her face and top torso turned out heart but her legs and arms, I wasn't a fan of. My hands are so hot that modeling chocolate melts in them, but I love the medium! I'm getting better and I will work more on legs, arms, hands and feet!

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

My first professional square cake was butter cream only with a gum paste Lilly and gum paste sea shells!!

Luckily the gum paste Lilly was fantasy flower (looks similar but not natural) and it is covered in fondant!

Unfortunately, I've never covered a square cake in fondant!!! Ah what to do what to do...

I searched online duh! And practiced! And it turned out well!!!!

The design of the cake was from the bride. I was sooooooo lucky I was searching for something else and found this excellent filigree stencil on Evil Cake Genius. I was so excited to use it and it was beautiful!!!! Stacked the cake and used this dowel technique I saw where there's one long center dowel since the cake had a three hour road trip!!!!

The cake was vanilla cake with vanilla IMBC and vanilla fondant with chocolate royal icing (tinted black).

It was wonderful! The friend of the bride who ordered the cake had great things to say about it and he said they LOVED the cake!!! Excellent way to end a square cake weekend ☺️

Excited because it gave me the opportunity to work on figurine work! I'm always excited to practice new techniques and she was a slight challenge. My beach lady was made with modeling chocolate. Her bathing suit is made from vanilla fondant.

I'm excited because she turned out great. Working on more detail work, have to better my hands and legs.

The cake is cookies and cream cake with vanilla IMBC, and brown sugar "sand"!

Friday, May 15, 2015

Surprise because I don't really have a large client base here but I'm so happy!!!

Talk about busy!!!! Five cakes over the Mother's Day weekend!!!! Oh happy day!

The first was a cake for a good friend of mine... He wanted something like Cake Boss for his mom!!! So he opted for a Black Forest cake covered in fondant with gumpaste roses and poppies.

The second was for another good friend... He wasn't sure what he wanted for his mom... So I asked him the basic questions I usually ask in consultation, he asked his mom while I was on the phone in a joking way... Couple minutes later, we have a surprise order of coconut cake with coconut creme, vanilla IMBC with shredded coconut, modeling chocolate plaque and gumpaste roses.

Third cake was simple, coconut cake with coconut creme vanilla IMBC and shredded coconut. The cake was for a member of my new church home...

The fourth and fifth cakes were for three very important women in my life... My mom, my aunt and my godmom!!! This was a special Mother's Day for us... Both of my grandmothers have went to glory, my step grandma, my great aunt (who was my surrogate mom) are also home in glory! So this day was so hard but we celebrate anyway!!! Their cakes were special to me because I got to try a new recipe and surprise these great women with cake ☺️!!!!

So it's been three weeks at Hummingbird! It's been super busy in macaron land, but guess what we've been making cakes too!!!!

We had a cake this past weekend for a very talented author for her book signing. This was a lot of firsts for the team, I never carved cake before, Aya never covered cake in fondant, so we both collaborated to make this the best cake possible!